Research Day 2024
CRINA Research Day was held in person at Lister Centre on November 13, 2024.
Poster Award Winners
Congratulations to this year's Poster Award Winners: Angie Chen, Asna Latif, Benjamin Schultz, Jenilee Woodfield, Rony Pain, & Sara Elmahrouk.
People's Choice Award Winners
This year, the audience cast their vote on the best 10-minute oral presentations. Congratulations to our winners:
Mckenna Eklund (Session 1: Understanding Cancer)
Madhumita Mannivannan (Session 2: Cancer Treatment & Causes)
Darin McDonald Team Award in Basic Oncology Research Award
Darin McDonald believed that it is the team working collaboratively where the greatest results are achieved. With this in mind, his family and friends, in collaboration with CRINA, created the Darin McDonald Team Award in Basic Oncology Research endowment in his memory, to provide an annual award to a multidisciplinary team that demonstrates excellence and collaboration in basic oncology research.
We are pleased to announce that the 2024 Darin McDonald Team Award in Basic Oncology Research Award in Basic Oncology was presented to the team of Kléouforo-Paul Dembele, Alois Haromy, Jiyuan Piao, Evangelos D. Michelakis, & Gopinath Sutendra for the poster presentation "Nanotubes Mediated Mitochondria Transfer from Normal to Cancer Cells Promotes Mesenchymal-to-Epithelial Transition (MET) Required for Metastasis in Cancer."
Sponsors
We want to sincerely thank this year's sponsors, who help keep CRINA Research Day free for all. If you are interested in sponsoring CRINA Research Day 2025, please email crina@ualberta.ca.